Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

If you would like to ‘favorite’ the strip, (and maybe the sketch, too), simply log in and click on the ‘Favorite’ star directly above the strip. Mr. McEldowney very kindly asked for us what purpose is served by favoriting, and this was the answer:
I asked my editor at Gocomics about the purpose of “favoriting” a strip. Her answer was this: “‘Favoriting’ allows people following you to see what comics you like. ‘Favorited’ comics also show up under your profile, and allow us to see what comics people are enjoying.”
Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
Brooke

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Margueritem said, 6 months ago

Pib follows the scent to Gehenna.
LLeRay said, 6 months ago

Sure, I’ll follow Pib anywhere…
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Pib is being a methodical, precise detective, or CSI (did she learn something from Nat besides his remarkable endurance?); now, what will she do when she reaches the end of the trail?

(thinks of noted sculpture–Remington?)
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

End of the Trail–not Remington but Fraser:

http://tinyurl.com/c3dac9

EDIT: better reference/image–

http://tinyurl.com/c6w9wx
GrumpyOldbear said, 6 months ago

Not a olfactory trail but a metaphysical one?
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Tallwoman glad to see you back
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@Risistas Cows are more content & productive with classical music.
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The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Have What you Want” was inspired by a meeting of Mick & Jimmy Hupmacher in Excelsior,MN
many decades ago. Mr.Jimmy was a town character.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

I was right - it was the building Dru fell of - even though Brooke missed his own visual continuity again.
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Love Pib’s dive and pul;lout in Panels 3 & 4.
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Though the finish is very pretty and excellent, the sketch has a dynamism that the finish sort of loses.
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Repostsd from “yesterday”, two posts originally made within the last hour:
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(1) New webcomics, huh?
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Has anyone here ever had a look at BLIP?
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Strip about a young woman and her friends … and angels and imps … and witches and vampires … and succubi and incubi (well, one of each) … and med students … and night shift at Kinko’s … and a dog named Poo for obvious reasons … and a beautiful cyborg who can go out on five or six dates at once while staying home and then download the memories to her main body … and some stuff that really strange.
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Start at the beginning {http://blipcomic.com/1/}
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You get a partial explanation (from the Devil himself) at about strip #39, but you won’t understand it if you don’t read what comes before.
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You might not understand it then, either, but at least you’ll have a fighting chance.
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(2) Speaking of Wapsi Square, may i point the OTC to this lovely piece of Powerpuff Girls fanart Pablo did {http://pablowapsi.deviantart.com/art/The-Powerpuff-Girls-92024303}, featuring Monica, Jacqui and Shelly?
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

Right, okay, I’m still lost, but at least we know that she’s following some sort of trail that Dru made whilst she was sick and falling off of things. Or do you think there’s ANOTHER giant hole in the street?
VicTR said, 6 months ago

Confoozin ain’t it !
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

Ooookay, I’m just too lost again, so scoot over on the couch, I brought my husband’s home-made chicken soup. His soup is the BEST; he simmers the chicken with garlic and ginger for hours, it can fix a cold or a bad day in one bowl!
Squire_of_the_shire said, 6 months ago

Pib can follow a trail of magical sparkly dust that the average human eye cant see, but she cant see the several story volcano with what looks like 4,000,000,000 pounds of jet thrust spewing out the top. Thaaaaats a head scratcher. If Ive missed something please fill me in.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

GrumpyOldbear says:

“The Rolling Stones ‘You Can’t Always Have What you Want’ was inspired by a meeting of Mick & Jimmy Hupmacher in Excelsior,MN
many decades ago. Mr.Jimmy was a town character.

Some more musical trivia - the Monkees may hold the record for the most reasons in one songtitle that the BBC demanded they give it an alternative title before it would play the song:
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Randy Scouse Git manages to break the Beeb’s rules of the day three times in three words - “randy” being pretty much equivalent to “horny”, “scouse” being a potentially offensive term for someone from Liverpool, and “git” meaning someone whose parents might, possibly, have been formally introduced but the odds are against it.
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So the BBC demanded an alternative title - so, if you look at most LPs/CDs, you’ll find it listed as Randy Scouse Git (Alternative Title).
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What i also love about the song is that (A) it specifically references the Beatles (“…the four kings of EMI are sitting stately on the floor…”) and (B) was written at Lennon’s suggestion, after Mickey Dolenz hung out with Lennon and the other Beatles when he was in London…
Saskfan said, 6 months ago

Hmmm, essence of Dru?? I’m in the lineup for the confusion couch too!

@Tallwoman41: Sounds like good news yesterday. You and your son make a nice photo! I have to admit that, as sexist as it is, I was thinking about you while Miss Cloverly was showing off her legs last week. You don’t have to prove that yours are better though. I’ll believe you. :)
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Squireof_theshire says:

“Pib can follow a trail of magical sparkly dust that the average human eye can see, but she can’t see the several story volcano with what looks like 4,000,000,000 pounds of jet thrust spewing out the top. Thaaaaat’s a head scratcher. If I’ve missed something please fill me in.”
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I assume you mean “…the average human eye can’t see…”; i’m sure Pib’s aware of the volcano. I’d also bet that she knows Dru is somehow involved in its creation - but she’s left Bustard to deal with the Dru … errr … end of things, as it were, and she’s trying to backtrack to see what caused all this and, just incidentally, where (and in what condition) Dru left Geoff.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

I dunno.
But it looks to me like Pibgorn’s next stop is the volcano; she needs to find or devise a way to get in or to break the dreamscape-spell….
Squire_of_the_shire said, 6 months ago

Fairport - I’ll file that one under oops. I clean forgot about our boy Geoff and his sudden disappearance off the radar scope, so to speak. I imagine that Pib hasn’t forgotten about or given up on getting back with Geoff.

I myself am getting rather anxious to find out why Dru was taking the swan dives off of the building at what appeared to be somebody elses behest.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Today’s poll on IMDB.com:
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Favorite from the top 20 of BFI’s 100 Best British Films?
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The Third Man
Brief Encounter
Lawrence of Arabia
The 39 Steps
Great Expectations
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kes
Don’t Look Now
The Red Shoes
Trainspotting
The Bridge on the River Kwai
If…
The Ladykillers
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Brighton Rock
Get Carter
The Lavender Hill Mob
Henry V
Chariots of Fire
A Matter of Life and Death
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I see at least seven {The 39 Steps, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Red Shoes, …if…, The Ladykillers, Get Carter and A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven]} on that list that, on any given day, might be the one i’d pick…

Lessee: That’s three Ealing comedies with Alec Guinness, two out-of-the-ordinary films from Powell and Pressburger, and Malcolm McDowell’s first film.
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

Risitas said: > “Typical NYC: not even a single Bob’s Barricade over the crack o’ Dru, since she was carted off to the ER.”

And ConEd used to be so good with their “Dig We Must” signs…
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago
Pibgorn: Well. She got to the bottom of it.
- 9CWL: Smart, Amos, very smart.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

fairportfan: favorite from Brit cinema list?

–There are, of course, several on that list which I like. But, hands down, my favorite one, if one I must pick, is The Third Man. One of the great classic films, and with an unusual score that I still find haunting….

http://tinyurl.com/c3f82j
AliKzam said, 6 months ago

Is she going to go into the volcamo next?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos says:

“fairportfan: favorite from Brit cinema list?”

For me, if i had to choose only one, it would be either …if… or A Matter of Life and Death.
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(Incidentally, i was at a freind’s place quite a while back. His stepkids were watchin Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. We were talking about things and stuff, not really watching - and then i happened to glance at the screen and almost fell off the couch laughing. Vickey and the kids were like “Huh?”; when Bill looked at me quizzacally, i just pointed and said “Look at the set.”
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(When Bill and Ted and the Grim Reaper are arriving in Heaven,. the set is a duplicate of the stairway in A Matter of Life and Death.)
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

AliKzam says:

“Is she going to go into the volcamo next?”
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No - i think she’s back-tracking Dru’s movements before the volcano, having left Bustard to deal with Dru and the Volcano.
AliKzam said, 6 months ago

Did I write “volcamo”? Oops!
All right, well the next thing Dru did was get gurneyed (sp) into the hospital. Do you suppose she’ll look for Geoff?
Delawarebob said, 6 months ago

Good morning all! Fresh Kona for the Confusion Couch. Oatmeal Cinnamon muffins will be ready in a few minutes. Anyone have the Orange Juice??
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

@fearciuil

I thought you were female - your choice of avatar, I guess.
TiggerLeBounce said, 6 months ago

I’ve got the orange juice. I’ll be stopping by with iced tea later: It’s been incredibly hot here the last few days.

Hey Dru, did you misplace your volcano?

And yes, that does look like the building Dru fell off of.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

AliKzam says:

“All right, well the next thing Dru did was get gurneyed (sp) into the hospital. Do you suppose she’ll look for Geoff?”

I think she is looking for Geoff; she started at the volcano, she’s back to where Dru fell off the roof; from there, i suspect she traces Dru back further…
Orgelspieler said, 6 months ago

okey-doke… so the detective is lip-rassling with Dru inside the volcano (or possibly inside a dream inside the volcano), and the arboreal fairy who “hired” him is downtown, sniffing magic dust in a hole in the sidewalk. Brooke is leading up to something, and it’s so obscure right now that all we can do it sit here and drool at the pretty colors.
Dry said, 6 months ago

Tigger you in the Northeast, perhaps?
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

Just made an extra large batch of green tea with lemon juice…hot in the air pot, cold in the jug. Help thy selves.
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

There’s a crowd developing over at “Big Top”. Some familiar names are posting there. 170+ comments yesterday.
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

fairportfanPro says: “I was right - it was the building Dru fell of - even though Brooke missed his own visual continuity again.”

Not necessarily. Angle and closeness of perspective could account for the difference s of appearance.

“Love Pib’s dive and pullout in Panels 3 & 4.”

Indeed. As Master Diver noted, her movements are most reminiscent of a swimmer rather than a flier, but sometimes the line is a bit blurry. Here they appear as both. But then, that is the nature of magic, isn’t it?
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

Oh, and since it is getting in toward breakfast time ‘round hereabouts, inspired by my brief cruise thru the messages over at Big Top, may I present scratch biscuits with your choice of fresh creamery butter or sausage gravy…? Wipe yourself, you got a little on your chin…
eddieal said, 6 months ago

It’s a lovely fragrance of lavender laced with cyanide.
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

A lovely sausage flavored with sage, pan-fried potatoes with green onions and three-colored bell peppers chopped up in it, duck eggs cooked to order and red-eye gravy for those of us what had had some red-eye the night before. Served with mason jars of ice cold whole milk. A tribute to my country roots.
macFicheallaigh said, 6 months ago

It’s a mystery, whatever that stuff is. Something emanated from Dru while she was in distress? It wasn’t there before – something only fairies and other magic folk can see?

Wonder if there is anything like that left twisting about in the hospital?
kcboomer said, 6 months ago

Pretty clear none of us have a clue as to where this is going.
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

Story Teller says:

“A lovely sausage flavored with sage, pan-fried potatoes with green onions and three-colored bell peppers chopped up in it, duck eggs cooked to order and red-eye gravy for those of us what had had some red-eye the night before. Served with mason jars of ice cold whole milk. A tribute to my country roots.”

And I’m fifty pounds overweight, trying desperately to lose it, and gained three pounds just reading that.

I haaaaaate you.
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

kcboomer says:

”Pretty clear none of us have a clue as to where this is going.”

{ pointing ] Thataway!
DryGrub Willie said, 6 months ago

@KCBoomer: Pretty clear none of us have a clue as to where this is going.

And isn’t that one of the best things about this? No trailers, no “reviewers” with spoilers, just the pure joy of discovering what’s up Brother McEldowney’s sleeve, besides one of the most talented arms in the history of art. For example, the translucency of Pib’s right wing as it blurs “the trail” behind it. Old DryGrub Willie is content to sit on the CC, graze on the goodies (I brought croissants and fresh strawberries) and wait to see what unfolds.
jcordaro64 said, 6 months ago

Yep. I’m confused.

And in a moment of madness , I also signed up for Peter David’s “Potato Moon” parody. You people are definitely a bad influence.
John Sanford said, 6 months ago

I fondly remember following ethereal scents like that at Renaissance Faires. Oh, wait a minute, that was probably smoke come to think of it. Whoooaaahhh… cool… flashback…
maeverin said, 6 months ago

those are great details in the last panel of the “scent trail”–the way the light comes down and lights up the, um, molecules, and how they blur behind Pib’s wings (as DryGrubWillie beat me to pointing out)
ooooh-croissants and strawberries–yum!
maeverin said, 6 months ago

John Sanford

LOL! and wonderful avatar BTW ^_^
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

John Sanford says:

”I fondly remember following ethereal scents like that at Renaissance Faires.”

I have been to only one Faire, in Virginia, about seven years ago. And I let my brother and sister-in-law get me away from a man playing hammered dulcimer, accompanied by a flutist; he had CD’s of his music for sale.

The music was enchanting, I have no idea who the player was, I never heard him or of him since, and I have for years bitterly regretted not buying a CD then and there. Or at least for God’s sake getting his name!
papa smurf said, 6 months ago

I would imagine Dru’s scent would include cinnamon and spice with several touches of things more earthy and sinister, like? musk? a touch of brimstone?

50 oops, no, 51
zorchon said, 6 months ago

Fairportfan and Others*,
We’ve missed something important about the trail!
It looks as if Pib has found the END of it. The trail does not continue! And it’s not the trail from Ground zero to the hot-spital (Volcanicly-hot-hospital.)
It’s a trail that ends with the hole in the sidewalk, and began with…
began at…

Well, there’s our next conundrum. Where did this trail begin? Is Geoff at the other end of it? A huge empty bottle of lilac-bubble-tea which Dru drank?

Perhaps when Dru was with Geoff, and Earth/Fire incarnation of Gia attacked her, and tried to take control of her body. The sparkly-bubbles are the product of their conflict (housed within Dru’s skin) which ended under the sidewalk, when the Gia-spirit won.
OK, that’s my bit of fan-fiction for today.

Fresh-baked wholewheat olive bread for the Couch, and a great-big Pangalactic Gargleblaster for me…
AAaaaaahhhhh.
jcordaro64 said, 6 months ago

I don’t know. The trail looks too .. well .. cute to be demonic. Fuzzy purple and pink dandelion fluff just doesn’t scream demon to me. I’m wondering if Dru might have been under the influence of something less evil and more benign that just didn’t go over too well.
Radical-Knight said, 6 months ago

Joe Minotaur - The Tribe over at Big Top are taken with your notice. (grin)
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doctortoon says:

Joe_Minotaur just mentioned our little party at Pibgorn. We’re going to be famous now kiddies.
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Drystyha says:

Yea, Joe noted our 170 posts!

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They even offer eats and have cook-outs.